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I would assume that the reason they're shutting down is that they've run out of (feasible) places to park them. As other commenters have mentioned, the order b
by nemetroid 7y ago
I would assume that the reason they're shutting down is that they've run out of (feasible) places to park them.
As other commenters have mentioned, the order backlog is still long, so as long as you can easily store the planes, it makes sense to keep building them.
- caf 7y agoFrom what I have read they would have no problem storing an almost unlimited number of them in one of the desert aircraft storage areas. It's really that while production operates without deliveries, it's a machine that turns cash into airplanes. Sooner or later, even Boeing is going to run a little low on cash.
- mulmen 7y agoI toured the Renton and Everett plants about a decade ago. They showed us the rail lines inside the factory next to the CNC mills. When Boeing lifts an individual stick of aluminum off the rail car they scan it and pay the supplier, before that the aluminum is still on the supplier’s books. They have taken just-in-time delivery to an extreme to make that money->airplane pump as efficient as possible. There are billions of dollars of raw materials in various states of becoming airplanes across the Boeing sites. It’s impressive they were able to run as long as they did without a delivery.